This week, IFPTE President Matt Biggs and Secretary-Treasurer Gay Henson sent a letter to House Ways and Means Committee leaders this week urging them to reauthorize the all-important Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program.
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IFPTE joined other unions and consumer, health, human rights, faith, and human rights organizations in a letter today to President Biden supporting his stated position against Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) and urging him to eliminate ISDS terms in existing free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties.
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IFPTE urged Senators to pass the omnibus government funding package which includes several funding and policy priorities that IFPTE advocated for. The current short-term government funding measure expires on December 23.
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Dozens of leaders from International unions representing a broad swath of jobs across the metal trades industry convened in Las Vegas to develop a plan to ensure that private and public investments in the sector create reliable, good-paying union jobs.
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As the high-level trade negotiators from 14 nations prepare, including the U.S., prepare to begin negotiations on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), a diverse group of over 100 organizations that includes IFPTE urged the Biden Administration to increase transparency and public participation during the negotiation process.
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Owen Herrnstadt, who was the longtime director of the Machinists union’s Trade and Globalization Department, was confirmed this week with bipartisan support by the U.S. Senate to serve on the Board of Directors at the United States Export-Import Bank (EXIM Bank).
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As the nomination of IAM’s Owen Herrnstadt to the Export-Import Bank continues to wait for Senate action, IFPTE reinforced their support for the nomination this week in a letter to Senators.
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IFPTE officers applaud the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and provided comments regarding this historic infrastructure commitment as well as on the progress of the Build Back Better Act.
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IFPTE applauds the U.S. Trade Representative's comments and the Biden Administration's affirmative steps to realign U.S. trade policy with the interests of working people.
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IFPTE stands in solidarity with the courageous auto workers in Mexico and Susana Prieto Terrazas, a labor lawyer and champion for workers who herself has been jailed by Mexican authorities for advocating for workers’ rights, and who also represents the workers who have been denied basic labor protections promised by the three countries covered by USMCA.
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President Shearon and other labor leaders met this week with United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai regarding requests from some nations to ramp up COVID vaccine manufacturing through the issuance of a waiver to the WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) protections.
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In a letter organized by the Citizen’s Trade Campaign, hundreds of organizing urged President Biden to reverse the U.S. government’s position and allow a waiver of the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) so that people in developing countries can have access to COVID-19 medicines, diagnostics, medical equipment, and vaccines. Read more on Citizen’s Trade Campaign’s website
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IFPTE submitted a public comment arguing against any flexibility that weakens the Bank’s commitment to promoting and supporting domestic manufacturing and services and American workers.
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IFPTE joined more than 100 organizations urging the House Financial Services Committee to move the legislation to “require large, publicly‐traded corporations to disclose key financial information (e.g. profits, revenues, taxes, number of employees, etc.) on a country‐by‐country basis to better inform taxpayers, investors, policymakers, academics and other stakeholders and ensure that we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic on the path to a sustainable and equitable economy.”
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SPEEA/Local 2001 recently teamed up with the International Association of Machinists (IAM) 751 in filing for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), also known as Trade Act, with the U.S. Department of Labor, resulting in additional federal support for SPEEA and IAM members in Washington state and Oregon who were laid off by Boeing.
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